Announcements for March 16

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Announcements for March 16

• General Announcements
• Notes on paper topics
• Narrow the independent and dependent variables
• Do not include dissertations, if possible
• This weeks discussants Liz, Margo, Justin
• Responses to mid-term evaluations
• Website will be up soon
• Move chairs for discussion

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Agenda

• Review Two mechanisms for influence of immediate
  affect on cognitive processes
• Affect Priming and Affect as Information
• Worksheet
• Attribution Theories

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Affect Priming Example Mood-State Dependency
Learn A
Learn B
Test A

Sad
Happy
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Happy
Happy
Happy
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Sad
Sad

Sad
Happy
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Sad
Sad
Sad
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Happy
Happy
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Bowers Mood-State Dependency
Learn Happy
Learn Sad
Retention
Control
Happy Recall Mood
Sad Recall Mood
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Description Worksheet

• Sheet 1 Bill Clinton
• Sheet 2 A good friend or family member
• Sheet 3 Yourself

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Two Attribution Biases

• Fundamental Attribution Error
• Tendency to attribute another persons behavior
  to his or her dispositional qualities
• Actor/Observer Effect (example hostile driver)
• Tendency to incorporate situational factors when
  explaining ones own behavior and to neglect
  situational factors when explaining the behavior
  of others.

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What Causes These Biases?

• Gestalt hypothesis
• behavior engulfs the field
• Information hypothesis
• we have more information about our own motives
  and intents than we have about others

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What Reduces These Biases?

• Cultural factors
• Manipulations of cognitive load (Gilbert, Pelham
  Krull, 1988)
• Dispositional attributions are automatic
• Situational attributions require effort
• Therefore, busy participants were unable to
  make use of the situational information.